Guns‚ Germs and Steel somewhat explains how the Europeans were able to conquer Africa and the Americas‚ but also leaves out some very important information. This Information includes things like political decisions‚ alliances‚ human decisiveness‚ and some information that flaws his theory of “Geographic Luck” (Guns Germs and Steel) . Essentially‚ Diamond’s theory basically claims that Europeans conquered based solely on geographic luck‚ and leaves out all other information that also impacted the
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Study Guide Questions Yali’s Question to Jared Diamond was as follows: Why did the Europeans have superior technology‚ and thus conquer the New World‚ rather than the other way around? Many answers have been put to the query‚ but a couple stand out. A common answer to this question is that because the Europeans got the guns‚ germs‚ and steel‚ they were superior. Diamond refutes this by asking about the ultimate cause: why did the Europeans get the guns‚ germs‚ and steel‚ rather
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Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences. He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Book Review The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book‚ he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers‚ he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis
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Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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Inequality in the development of civilizations has long been a mystery. That is‚ until the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel came out in 1997. This book revealed how geography determined that Europe was fortunate in agriculture‚ domesticated animals‚ germs and Papua New Guinea and Inca were not. Climate is determined by the latitude and longitude of a location. The latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea causes it to have a hot tropical climate year-round and one of the only things they can grow is
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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In Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies
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enquiry into ‘a short history of everybody for the last 13‚000 years’‚ leading him into a wide-ranging discussion of the history of human evolution and diversity through a study of migration‚ socio-economic and cultural adaptation to environmental conditions‚ and technological diffusion. The result is an exciting and absorbing account of human history since the Pleistocene age‚ which culminates in a sketch of a future scientific basis for studying the history of humans that will command the same intellectual
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transported back 13‚000 years could not have predicted on which continent human societies would develop most quickly‚ but could’ve made a strong case for any of the continents. He says that the remainder of the book is to discover those real reasons. In section two‚ chapter four‚ Diamond argues that superior food production was the root cause beneath the ability of Eurasia’s people to develop the guns‚ germs‚ and steel that conquered the rest of the world. First‚ a population that can produce more food can
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